Indonesia pledges $40 billion to modernize Jakarta ahead of new capital: minister
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The Indonesian government is not abandoning Jakarta after announcing plans to move the country’s capital, its planning minister said, pledging to spend $40 billion to save the slowly sinking city in the next decade.